Iron County register., 1887-03-03

tied to all tdnds equally. then in the
ry, they would have beeu absolutel
right, however it might differ from an
feasible practice.
Ii we accept the Bible as true hi
tory Of the creation of man, and til
things that transpired then and 500
thereafter, we Will learn that Go
created not only the earth, realty, bu
all other living things, chattels, fo
man. Not for one man. or for par
tlcuiar class or number Of men, or for
government of men, but for Adam an,
TOR ali his race, for all men. with som
limitations over, as to forfeiture of es
tate upon conditions broken. Then
again, leaving out of consideration al
reference to holy writ as imminent O
title, or title deed, and also, not consid
ering the doctrine of the survival o
the tittest, and the right of strong t.
oust the weak-I say, leaving all these
out of consideration, any individual
man has rs much absolute right, theo
retically, to the use and enjoyment OF
so much land as is necessary 10 his
support and maintenance, as he has tC
the other elements which are not ap.
priated by individuals, on account OF
their appropriate qualities. He
has as absolute a right to the earth as
he has to use the air with which he in
flates his lungs. and without which he
would soon return to his native ele-
ments, out of which he srrang.
These are absolute rights, and, theo-
retlcally, are, ia q stGte of nature, in
defeosible.
Mr.. Editor; are you thinking that I
am undertaking to out-George Henry
George? Far from it. There is a vast
difference between theories pertaining
to state of Nature, and to putting
those theories into practice under the
workings Of human government,
when, as a matter of fact, human gov
ernment, while actually necessary for
existence, is diametrically opposed to a
state of nature IN human life. See?
Mr.. George and his followers in his
land theory. though philanthropic gen.
tiemcn, are visionary enthusiasts, and
in their enthusiasm forget that their
theories pertain solely to state of ma
ture and are absolutely opposed to and
of fruition under any ordinary
upon which the sun ever
shone. They forget that all absolute
rights passed away from the face of the
earth at the same moment that saw the
birth Of the first organized human gov
ernmvnt.
The text book lays it down that an
absolute right is the right to do as one
will in all things, unchecked and un-
trammeied by any human will or
power save ones own.
Way back yonder in the morning of
the y orid, when the song bird was still
sending up praises for it's exis tence,
when virgin seas washed shores as yet
by the tread of man, man
ceased to be governed by God as tenn
poral king. If there was a period be-
tween that end of Gods direct temporal
rule and the institution of human gov
that period was one of an
lrchy, and confusion worse con-
founded."
God ceasing to rule, man, for self
to protect the weak
I1 -alI II
rom the i'll minded, was compelled to
erect his own handiwork into a govern
nent; to this a contract, express or
implied, (and to which contract you
md | are heirsl was necessary. From
he very nature of that contract, the
contract of citizenship, it will be seen
hat all absolute rights are surrendered.
And only those rights are to be enjoyed
II common which are most benficial to
Ill, and least prejudicia1. Civil liberty
: the right TO do will ones self and
mes own SO that it be not to the pref
ldice of the guaranteed right of anoth-
.r;h and ownership of land and other
property was assigned by common
consent or by decree of government to
he Individual, and he was guaranteed
he separate and private use of it, sub
ect TO the good of the whole. Expert
nee and history teaches that those
nations and peoples, where the individ-
lal right to private property is Hide
ined and slack of observance, are in
low in the scale of human
progress, ergo, thence we may argue
hat the better defined and more rigid
Y observed are these rights, the more
advanced people. Whether civiiiZa-
j, IN and government strengthen these
les or whether this fixing of right ad-
-ances civilization some may argue;
,ut it will hardly be contended in
merica that the right to private prop |
rty and the family tie are not twin
listers, which have given birth to vir-
ue and to the strict integrity of the
light of private property.
OF course, the ownership of private |
smacks of monopoly, of exclu-
i've use, of self and GOWN. But so
1oes the marriage tie, that most sacred |
f sacraments. The ownership OF pri- |
ate property in all civilized countries |
5 compromise between the absolute
light of every man to own all or any |
Ie desires, and monopoly: the owner,
f course, holding it subject to the laws |
nd will of his fellows, and under i'm |
lied contract not to use it contrary to |
aw or the public good.